Paul McCartney: ‘Lennon’s killer is the jerk of all jerks’

Sir Paul McCartney recalled the moment he heard about John Lennon’s death during an interview over the weekend, saying the late Beatles star’s killer, Mark David Chapman, is “the jerk of all jerks.”

McCartney rarely speaks about the passing of his former bandmate and songwriting partner 34 years ago on Dec. 8, but during a chat with British TV host Jonathan Ross, he remembered the moment he heard the terrible news.

The rocker said, “For me, it was just so sad that I wasn’t gonna see him again… For me, the biggest thing was that the guy that took his life, the phrase kept coming in my head: ‘Jerk of all jerks!’

“This is not even a guy political motivated; it’s a total random thing.”

McCartney also that he and Lennon had patched things up before Lennon was killed, saying “The story about the break-up, it’s true but it’s not the main bit, the main bit was the affection.

“I’m so glad because it would have been the worst thing in the world to have this great relationship that then soured and he gets killed, so there was some solace in the fact that we got back together. We were good friends.”